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HENRY'J. MGCAZBE AND JOHN WISE, OF MENASHA, WISCONSIN.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

v Application filed September 25,- 1914. Serial No. 863,427.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, HENRY J. MCCABE and JOHN W'IsE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Menasha, in the county of \Vinnebago and State of VViscom sin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the formation of boxes from a suitable thickness of paste board having a lining of Spanish cedar veneer, the boxes being designed for cigar boxes, and theobject of the improvement is to provide a cigar box at a lower cost than one formed entirely of Spanish cedar, that wood giving the cigars an aroma that is demanded by those persons that use cigars. The method of constructing the boxes is shown in the accompanying drawing in which, i v

Figure 1 is a plan of the paste board flat, and showing the form in which'it is out and the several grooves and locking members thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bottom side of the box with a binding at its ends, not yet pasted down. Fig. 3 is a plan of the bottom of the completed box. Fig. 4 is a plan of one end of the box, showing its looking member and its binding before it is pasted down. Fig. 5 is a plan of one end of a completed box. Fig. 6 is an edge view of the box ends and a section along the joint between the front side and the bottom upon the line a, a of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals indicate like parts in the several views.

The'box consists of a bottom 1, front side 2, ends 3, rear side 4 and cover 5. The ends are alike in size and form and the front and rear sides are alike excepting that the rear side has tenons which the front side does not have. It will be observed that the ends of the box 3, rear side 4 and bottom 1, are provided with locking joint members, also that the lower edge 7 of the front 2, where it joins the bottom 1, the front and rear edges 8 of the bottom and the upper and lower edges 9 of the rear side 4, and the hinged edge of the cover 5, are provided with a beveled edge, as 10, of Fig.6, for permitting the folding together of the several parts. The box is formed of a single sheet of paste board, as 11 of Fig. 6, and is provided with grooves 12, for forming the beveled edges and permitting the folding together of the several parts. These grooves may be made in a stamping machine and although they present a perceptible bevel, do

not extend so deep as to destroy the neces-' sary strength of the box, but are of suificient Width and depth for permitting the folding.

Upon the inner surface of the bottom, ends and sides a veneering of Spanish cedar 13 is glued. This veneering being but from 1/100 to 1/7 5th of an inch in thickness, effects a great saving in the cost of an expensive wood over the cost of a box formed entirely of cedar. It is well known that Spanish cedar imparts an aroma to cigars that no other material does and that aroma being demanded by cigar users it is necessary to cater to the demands of the public by. packing the cigars in cedar or cedar lined boxes. The inside of the cover does not require the veneering, as thatspace is usually occupied by the label of the cigars therein, or the trade mark of the cigar maker. Outside of and around the margins of the several parts, a binding of strong paper, 14, is pasted, those strips along the bottom and rear side 4, being of sufiicient width for lapping over the box ends, and are glued but not pasted down until the box is completed, and those along the fronts of the ends and sides in Fig. 1, being turned pver upon the inner sides as shown in dotted ines.

The sheet being cut to the form shown in Fig. 1 and the V shaped grooves formed in the paste board and the veneering glued to the several sections for the inner lining and the binding upon the outside as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, if the boxes are to be shipped in the knock down, they are packed flat, as Fig. 1, as in this form they occupy less than 1/5th of the space that the completed box requires. If they are to be completed, the two ends 3 are to be turned into a vertical position, then into a horizontal one with the locking members of the ends engaged with the slot 6 in the bottom. The rear side is then to be turned into a vertical position and its lock joint members engaged with those of the ends 3, when the glued ends of the binding strips 14, at the ends of the pieces 1 and 4, are to be secured to said lock ends and the lower edges of the end pieces 3 and thus completing the box.

We are aware that cigar boxes have been made of pasteboard and of wood covered with a veneering of Spanish cedar, upon their'inner and outer sides and upon the inner and outer sides of their cover, but we are not aware that they havevbeen made from a single sheet of paste board lined upon the inside only upon their bottom, sldes and ends only with a veneering the surfaces of those parts being the only ones which can impart'the aroma of the cedar to the contents of the box, the cover upon its inside being left unlined as the usual printed matter thereon will prevent any aroma from the cover from being given out.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

A box the body of which is formed from a single sheet of pasteboard divided into six sections, the sides of which are inand sides, front side and ends and rear side and cover, in combination with a lining of Spanish cedar veneering, glued u on the bottom, its sides, and ends and a inding strip projecting from each end of its bottom and rear side adapted to be pasted down upon the ends when the box is folded to-- gether for use.

HENRY J. MCGABE. JOHN WISE.

Witnesses:

KATE W. Jones, C. M. ALBEE. 

